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. >> jon, thank you very much. joining me to discuss the road ahead is the white house chief of staff bill daley. thank you very much for joining us. you've heard what jon said. you've seen what speaker boehner has done last night. what's your reaction to the deal being pulled right now? >> it's very unfortunate the speaker made the comments he has. the president is committed to solving this deficit possible for the future of america. he's looking forward to the meeting to play out his case. he's saying, it is time now to make the tough decisions. in this town, generally they kick the can. nobody wants to do the tough things. he's committed to do that. he's not giving up on trying to bring economic sanity to the city and that's his goal. >> is he still committed to the mega-deal, so to speak? because this is what is floated in the last several days that speaker boehner said no longer possible. will the president continue to push for that? >> the president believes it is time to solve this problem. time to give conf
. >> jon, thank you very much. joining me to discuss the road ahead is the white house chief of staff bill daley. thank you very much for joining us. you've heard what jon said. you've seen what speaker boehner has done last night. what's your reaction to the deal being pulled right now? >> it's very unfortunate the speaker made the comments he has. the president is committed to solving this deficit possible for the future of america. he's looking forward to the meeting to play out...
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>> yeah. >> reporter: with this year in politics in 2011 i'm jon karl. >> as ever, thank you, jon carl. >>> in a little more than a week, the decideders finally start deciding in the iowa caucuses. let's bring in our round table, george will, cokie roberts, ed gillespie and jon karl. let me start with you, george, republicans often rally around a top candidate early on. this time it seemed like at least every month there was a new top candidate. what's been going on? >> what's been going on is an astonnishly resistantens to mitt romney. at the end of the day, they may settle on mitt romney. they're going to shop around for a while yet. >> let me ask you, ed, that broad-based resistance has brought us now to newt gingrich being at the top of the pack. is that something that gives you confidence, should he be the nominee, your party will be able to regain the white house? >> i think whoever eemerges as the nominee will win the white house in 2012. when you look at president obama's numbers, his approval rating, the right direction, wrong track, whom ever emerges as our nominee from a tou
>> yeah. >> reporter: with this year in politics in 2011 i'm jon karl. >> as ever, thank you, jon carl. >>> in a little more than a week, the decideders finally start deciding in the iowa caucuses. let's bring in our round table, george will, cokie roberts, ed gillespie and jon karl. let me start with you, george, republicans often rally around a top candidate early on. this time it seemed like at least every month there was a new top candidate. what's been going on?...
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in our special feature today, our man jon karl takes us through this long, strange week in politics. >> and there's herman cain. still looking like he's having the time of his life. still on top of the polls. and this is at the end of the week we would have thought sunk any presidential candidate. just think of how it all started. >> the politico, based on spirely anonymous sources, two unnamed women, accused cain of sexual harassment when he was ceo of the national restaurant association. cain called the story a witch hunt. >> i have never sexually harassed anyone and those accusations are totally false. >> reporter: and the cash settlement? >> i'm unaware of any sort of settlement. >> reporter: a few hours after that, his memory was again improving. >> there was a financial settlement and it was somewhere in the vicinity of three to six-months' severance pay. >> reporter: pressed on why he changed his story, cain parsed words. >> the word settlement versus the word agreement, i'm not sure what they called it. >> where have we heard talk like that? >> it depends on what the meaning
in our special feature today, our man jon karl takes us through this long, strange week in politics. >> and there's herman cain. still looking like he's having the time of his life. still on top of the polls. and this is at the end of the week we would have thought sunk any presidential candidate. just think of how it all started. >> the politico, based on spirely anonymous sources, two unnamed women, accused cain of sexual harassment when he was ceo of the national restaurant...
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. >> is it just about the budget, jon, or does madison have a bigger political implication? >> it's clearly got a bigger implication. the president was quicker and more forceful in his deannouncement of governor scott walker than he was this denouncing hosni mubarak. the state of wisconsin, this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. if the president loses this state, he's almost certainly not going to win the re-election. this state has been solidly democratic. went more in the direction of republicans, a bigger move than any other state in to 10. you saw republicans capture the state legislature, two house seats, two senate seats. democrats see danger signs for next year. >> governor walker was elected promising to do what he's doing. he did the same thing as county executive. of milwaukee. there were protests, union uprisings and he was handily re-elected. donna, as i'm sure you know, the heros of the labor movement, franklin roosevelt and fiorello laguardia said, there's no place for union groups at all. 24 states deny entirely collective bargaining
. >> is it just about the budget, jon, or does madison have a bigger political implication? >> it's clearly got a bigger implication. the president was quicker and more forceful in his deannouncement of governor scott walker than he was this denouncing hosni mubarak. the state of wisconsin, this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. if the president loses this state, he's almost certainly not going to win the re-election. this state has been solidly democratic....
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you saw jon karl's piece. there's a lothijinks in that piece. has progress many made? >> i don't know. the speaker indicated he has not reached an agreement. i thing that negotiations continue and they need to continue. but what this is -- christiane, we need to understand this is more than a republican-democratic squabble. this is -- the fundamental question is, are we headed to a financial crisis if we don't get off the fiscal course we're on? we have had witness after witness sayed that. erski erskine bowl erk s said that. we're predicting a crisis that could happen in two years. we have to take action now. >> we'll get to that. from your perspective, senator schumer, has progress been made? >> yes, i don't -- excuse me. i don't think there will be a shutdown, christiane. i'm quite optimistic. thi i think progress is being made. they're working off a number, $33 billion in cuts. it's reasonable. it's between what democrats and republicans have proposed. right in the middle. that was pro poeproposed origin ryan and rogers, the head of the appropriations committee. no
you saw jon karl's piece. there's a lothijinks in that piece. has progress many made? >> i don't know. the speaker indicated he has not reached an agreement. i thing that negotiations continue and they need to continue. but what this is -- christiane, we need to understand this is more than a republican-democratic squabble. this is -- the fundamental question is, are we headed to a financial crisis if we don't get off the fiscal course we're on? we have had witness after witness sayed...
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you saw jon karl's piece. there's a lot of hijinks in that piece. has any progress been made this weekend amongst negotiators? >> i don't know. >> is that a know? >> i don't know that it has. the speaker indicated he has not reached an agreement. i think that negotiations continue and they need to continue. but what this is -- christiane, we need to understand this is more than a republican-democratic squabble. this is -- the fundamental question is, are we headed to a financial crisis if we don't get off the fiscal course we're on? we have had witness after witness say that is so. erskine bowles said that. president obama's choice to head the debt commission. we're predicting a crisis that could happen in two years. we have to take action now. >> we'll get to that. from your perspective, senator schumer, has progress been made? will there be a shutdown in five days? >> yes, i don't -- excuse me. i don't think there will be a shutdown, christiane. in fact, i'm quite optimistic. i think progress is being made. they're working off a number, $33 billio
you saw jon karl's piece. there's a lot of hijinks in that piece. has any progress been made this weekend amongst negotiators? >> i don't know. >> is that a know? >> i don't know that it has. the speaker indicated he has not reached an agreement. i think that negotiations continue and they need to continue. but what this is -- christiane, we need to understand this is more than a republican-democratic squabble. this is -- the fundamental question is, are we headed to a...
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two men actually at the g bargaining table join us, jack lew and republican senator jon kyl. plus -- >> i ologize. >> rupert murdoch under fire. heads roll at his media empire, but will that be enough to s sa it? >>> and in africa, a cry for help. millions, threatened by an epic drought, the worst in 60 years. we'll take threw. then, we're live from germany where the american woman's soccer team has a shot at making history. >> announcer: live from the newseum in washington, "this week" with christiane amanpour starts right now. >>> welcome to the program. we've got lots to get to this morning. but, first, some head lines since your morn papers. there is breaking news to report in london. the bbc has learned that rebecca brooks, rupert murdoch's top lieutenant in the uk has been arrested on corruption. earlier she resigned from her position as chief executive of news international. in the wake of the scandal rocking the murdoch empire. much more later in the program. >>> casey anthony is a free woman this morning. she walked out of jail 12 days after the murder of caylee. ant
two men actually at the g bargaining table join us, jack lew and republican senator jon kyl. plus -- >> i ologize. >> rupert murdoch under fire. heads roll at his media empire, but will that be enough to s sa it? >>> and in africa, a cry for help. millions, threatened by an epic drought, the worst in 60 years. we'll take threw. then, we're live from germany where the american woman's soccer team has a shot at making history. >> announcer: live from the newseum in...
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. >> let me ask you, let me go to senator demint who said to jon karl this week, he would not vote, nor would he advise anybody to vote to raise the debt ceiling, if you all did not pass a balanced budget amendment. is that even likely, the actual passage of a balanced budget amendment before this deadline needs to be met? >> we're certainly going to vote on it. we'll vote on eye balanced budget amendmentnt in the senat the week of july 18th. we'll have that vote. all republicans in the senate supported. if we get 20 more democrats that would pass. that's an important step in the right direction looking out to the future. it would not eliminatetehe challenge we have before us which is cut spending now and that's what these negotiations in connection with the request to the president to ask us to raise the debt ceiling are about. >> and so, do you, at this point, believe that these negotiations are going to go right down to the wire? might even pass the august 2nd deadline? you as the leadership, are you prepared to see that happen? >> we'd like to wrap this up. one of the reasons we are
. >> let me ask you, let me go to senator demint who said to jon karl this week, he would not vote, nor would he advise anybody to vote to raise the debt ceiling, if you all did not pass a balanced budget amendment. is that even likely, the actual passage of a balanced budget amendment before this deadline needs to be met? >> we're certainly going to vote on it. we'll vote on eye balanced budget amendmentnt in the senat the week of july 18th. we'll have that vote. all republicans in...